Growing up in a middle-class home, Kate Diehn-Bitt received drawing lessons at the age of 14. Later she attended courses at the Rostock trade school. Her marriage to the dentist Peter Paul Diehn in 1919 and the birth of their son were followed by a ten-year career break. It was not until 1929 that Diehn-Bitt took up her artistic training and studied until 1932 at Simonson-Castelli's private academy with Woldemar Winkler in Dresden. This later remembers his pupil: "Again and again she was interested in the human charisma, from which she hoped to elicit expanded truths. [...] In her own way she was looking for solutions to the old and always new problem to look at the scenery, with the certainty of only finding fear and horror." D...